83 



Plate 38. -Classification: SYSTEM Riverine, subsystem Intermittent, class Streambed, subclass Sand, WATER REGIME Inter- 

 mittently Flooded, water chemistry Mixosaline. The average annual discharge for this river, the Rio Salado, is 14.6 hm 3 /yr 

 (11,880 acre-ft/yr). (Socorro County, New Mexico; April 1978; Photo by P. B. Reed) 



